Laboratory Information System (LIS)
The LIS system was designed to be a simple web base management system
for my lab. It integrates most of the things that a small
academic lab needs to keep tract of , in one password word restricted
location. So far it provides an interactive list of chemicals,
supplies, orders, group meetings and current publications being worked
on. But due to it's design, it can easily be extended to manage
other information.
Because the system would be a low volume site, and would never need to
scale to more than 20 users, it was implemented using a series of CGI
perl scripts. with all data being stored in simple text files.
This actually worked pretty well, seeing that the system was originally
hosted on a old Pentium 133 MHz with 32 MB of RAM with a 1.6 GB HD
running Linux and the Apache web server. I have since updated to
a PII 450 MHz with 256 MB because the old machine finally died after a
few years.
I have recently started work on a JSP/Servlet/MySQL version of the site
though. This will make it allot more manageable and portable.
